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kontextmaschine:

You know what has like completely fallen out of cultural memory\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc? Perfect Strangers.

I guess the ironic Yakov Smirnoff renaissance filled our quota of Eastern European foreignness comedy

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>@femmenietzsche said: Actually I’ve seen a small uptick in references to this show over the last few years

I guess it mattered that in between we had a text culture where it was easier to snowclone “in Soviet Russia\u2026” than a Balki bit

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